Films dealing with memory and history; the moments in our lives when things changed, or could have. The pasts that form us, or that founder us. The pasts that form us as individuals, and that founder us as cultures.
Including work by Alexandra Grimanis, Amanda Dawn Christie, Brian Stockton, Dorit Naaman, Paramita Nath, Pat Mills, Riaz Mehmood, Alexis Mitchell and Tori Foster. Curated by Leslea Kroll, Tim Folkmann and Marsh Murphy.
- Sunday February 14 at 1:00PM
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v=d/t
v=d/t is the physics formula which calculates velocity by dividing the distance traveled by the time required to travel that distance. This film explores the possibility of measuring distances between loved ones through time zones. The sound track is comprised... view more
Pat's First Kiss
The sad-but-hilariously-true story of the filmmaker’s first kiss with an undesirable stranger he met overseas.
Queeropolis: Toronto 1972 - 2008
Queeropolis charts the queer, urban fabric of Toronto from 1972-2008 - a formative period of claiming public space for the queer community. The oral narratives of John Greyson, Jane Farrow, Keith Cole, and others, are set against an animated mapping... view more
27000 Frames
27000 Frames is a video that weaves together fact and fiction. The narrative in this video is both constructed and destructed at once; as a result makes it difficult for the viewer to suspend their disbelief.
Found: The Poetry of Souvankham Thammavongsa
An impressionistic journey told through old photos, text, animation and home movies, begins when Toronto poet Souvankham Thammavongsa discovers her father's discarded scrapbook that documents the family's escape from Laos in the 1970s. Thammavongsa’s parents lived in a Lao refugee camp... view more
Lucky Girl
Four minutes in the day that I went to meet a man at sunset in the park. Lucky Girl recalls a seemingly insignificant moment that could have turned out very differently.
Two Houses and a Longing
This video tells the story of two Palestinian homes whose owners fled during the 1948 war and the houses now serve a museum and a daycare centre. The video tackles the question of the right of return of Palestinian refugees,... view more
Whitmore Park (The Epic Story of My Life Part 4)
Brian Stockton’s series of humourous autobiographical short films goes beyond his acclaimed Saskatchewan Trilogy and into the suburban neighbourhood of Whitmore Park. Filled with ruminations about ‘the future’, strange performance art projects from grade four, and the beginnings of a... view more
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- STEM Cell 2010 / Reeling Dance On Screen
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1: Variations on the Home Movie
- Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck) (2010)
- Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque
- Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (2008)
- Artist's Talk with Daniel Barrow @ The ARTery
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 2: Landscapes
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 3: The Medium of Media
- Reeling: Blush - A film by Ultima Vez (2004)
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory
- Reeling: Gravity of Desire
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 5: Phenomenology & Perception
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